Parag Khanna and David Skilling: Global governance doesn’t suffer for lack of competitive groups and agendas, but there is an urgent need for groups focused on generating breakthrough ideas. The G20 is needed, but it is not enough. It is in this spirit that the “g-20” should convene to provide a platform for small states…
How easy is it to create life? It happened here at least once. Does that give scientists studying the creation of life from non-life (abiogenesis) much to work with?
Emily Baldwin, deputy editor of Astronomy Now magazine, said the asteroid, which is known as 2005 YU55, posed no threat. She told the Sunday Times: “It is a great opportunity to make close-up, detailed observations. Studies of asteroids are important not only to learn about the potential threat an impact may have on Earth but also…
Today’s golden age of astronomy is revealing that our universe is rich, fascinating, and meaningful, and in it we humans occupy an extraordinary place.
The dark ages of the universe—an era of darkness that existed before the first stars and galaxies—mostly remain a mystery because there is so little of it to see, but scientists intensely desire to shed light on them in order to learn secrets about how the universe came into being.
Times Square and New York City were right outside. I was on the stage talking about the difficulty of proving all ravens are black and explaining why my students should care about dead white guys from Vienna. Fortunately, real science came to the rescue.
Big History seeks to evoke in you an appreciation for the immensity of science and a longing for the greatest story ever told.
Sean Carroll: The multiverse might be impossible to test directly. Even if such a theory were true, the worry goes, how would we ever know? Is it scientific to even talk about it?
Adam Frank: Looking back 100, 1000 or 10,000 years, it became clear to me that time in cosmology (be it of the scientific or mytho-religious variety) has always been tightly braided with the human experience of time.
Two studies shed additional light on a murky question: How did the cosmic fog that enveloped the universe in its early days dissipate?